Am I not seeing the Error?

[Devyn Collier Johnson]

On 08/12/2013 12:56 PM, Joel Goldstick wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 11:47 AM, Roy Smith <roy at panix.com> wrote:
>> I can't quite sort out the multiple quoting levels, but somebody said:
>>
>>>>> Programming like that is called trolling. A programmer that uses
>>>>> trolling is called a troll. A troll can also refer to such a line
>>>>> of code itself. My scripts contain a lot of trolls. It is easier
>>>>> for me to read trolls than "typical" coding styles.
>> Please tell me this is all just an elaborate joke.
> I was thinking something similar Roy.  Devyn, you may think you code
> differently, but you don't.  You have a half of dozen people trying to
> show you how your style causes confusion between what you think you
> are writing and what you actually coded.  There is plenty of room in
> coding for personal expression, but what you call 'trolling' is not
> that.  If you like semicolons, use another language that needs them.
> I think you think it is some version of premature optimization.  Since
> you are a novice at the language, stick with the standards, and learn
> to embrace them.  Ultimately standard coding styles has nothing to do
> with code optimization.  It has to do with readability.  Although this
> is a small example, you can see that if several people get involved
> debugging it, the first thing that gets in the way is your
> non-standard coding style.  If you want to code alone your whole life,
> do as you like.  But the time spent reading and fixing code in the
> lifetime of any useful software system is greater than the time spent
> creating the original code.
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I know using semicolons will not optimize the code, but it is actually 
easier for me to read. I can handle such code better than spacing it out.

DCJ